Burner for lamps



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E. J. HALE. BURNER FOR LAMPS.

No. 312,267. Patented Feb. 17, 1885.

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ELIAS JONES HALE, OF FOXOR-OFT, MAINE.

BURNER FOR LAMPS.

EPZLCIFIC'ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,267, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed June 17, 1884. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIAS JONES. HALE, of Foxcroft, in the county of Piscataquis, of the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Burners for Lamps; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top View, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of a burner provided with my invention. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4. a transverse section, of the body of the burner as provided with a cylindrical tubular wicktube and with air-deflectors arranged therewith and fixed to such body instead of to the cone.

The remainingfigures, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, are hereinafter explained.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented, it consisting, mainly, in the burner-body provided with a round or cylindrical wick-tube and with two lips or deflectors arranged on opposite sides thereof at or near the top of such tube, and projected either from the body or from the flame deflector or cone, they being represented as just below the end portions of its flame-slot, the object of such two lips or deflectors being to so intercept or deflect air passing upward through the cone as to cause it to pass in two currents against opposite sides of the flame of the wick, in order for the flame in going out of the slot of the cone to be contracted, so as to be spread laterally, as it is usually with a flat wick. The round wick is preferable to a flat one on several accounts, particularly init requiring less, if any, trimming for removal of carbonaceous deposits on it. It takes up and holds the oil to better advantage, and, generally speaking, will contain more oil than a flat wick of the proper size, as in most if not all burners there can be used a round or cylindrical wick having in transverse section a greater superficial area than that of a flat wick of the proper width and thickness for such burners. v

In the drawings, A denotes the body of the burner of a kerosene-lam p, the flame-spreadi g cone being shown at B as provided with the usual flame passage or slot, a,.having a width about one-fifth of its length.

ranged concentrically within the said body and extended to or above its top and within the cone B when the latter is in place on the body. Below or underneath the end portions of the flame slot or passage a are the two lips or air-deflectors b b, which in Fig. 2 are shown as projecting from the cone, and in Figs. 3 and 4 as extending from the burnerbody toward and to or nearly to the wicktube, each lip, as shown, having a width equal or about equal to that of the slot or. The cone fits upon the cylindrical part c of the body, there being in and around the body below such part a series of holes or openings, (Z, for the passage of air into the body, such holes being at equal distances apart. A wick-elevator, D, is applied to the body and wick-tube. The air in passing upward through the body rushes into the cone, and by it is directed out of the slot a. Portions of the ascending current of air on striking against the lips I) b will be deflected by them in opposite-directions against the rest of the air flowing upward, and in consequence all or most of the air will be thrown in two currents in opposite directions against the flame, so as to compass it and cause it to pass in a flattened and spread condition out of the cone.

\Vhen a burner constructed for using a flat or broad wick is provided with lips to project inwardly from it to or near to the edges of the wick-tube at or near the top thereof, the flame will be somewhat improved or increased in width, or spread out within and above the slot of the cone. It is especially so when a round or cylindrical wick-tube and wick are used.

In some cases the lips or deflectors may be fixed to a rectangular or other proper shaped ring or frame, separate from and to support them within the burner, such a ring with the deflector being shown in top view in Fig. 5, in side view in Fig. 6, and in longitudinal section in Fig. 7. In such figures the ring is represented at d and the deflectors at b b. Fig. 8 is a vertical section, and Fig. 9 a top view, of the burner with the ring or frame and deflectors sustained thereby arranged within such body, the longer sides of the ring fitting tightly upon the wick-tube, and the deflectors at their outer edges touching the inner periphery of the said body.

I do not claim burners having fiat wicktubes less in width than their cone-openings and provided with deflectors, as represented in the United States Patent No. 110,241, and the German Patent No. 2,541 for 1878.

5 I therefore claim- 1. Aiamp burner provided with lips or defiectors projecting from the cone or body of such burner toward the wick-tube at opposite parts thereof and directly underneath the end 10 portions of theflame-slot of the cone and with a wick-tube greater in width or diameter than the width of the said slot, so as to extend in opposite directions beyond the sides of the slot, all being substantially as set forth.

2. The two deflectors b b, in combination 15 with and fixed to a supporting-ring, d, the

whole being for application to a burner, substantially as described.

ELIAS JONES HALE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

